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MPP 084 – Review

Monthly Prize Puzzle 084 – Review

May 2019

A Puzzle by Prolixic

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This month’s winner of a Telegraph Puzzles Book of their choice is Roland Rance.

He correctly answered the question Nine solutions form a grammatical sequence. What is its majestic description? The answer being The Royal Order of Adjectives – determiner, opinion, size, age, shape, colour, material, origin and qualifier

11a Reportedly welcome support making meal (4,3)
HIGH TEA – A homophone (reportedly) of HI (welcome) and TEE (golf support) [Not how I remember high tea from my childhood ‘an early evening meal of a hot dish followed by cakes’ but Mr Google doesn’t provide any pictures of such a thing]

12a View over wing (7) OPINION – O (over) PINION (wing)

13a Looks for adult to stand in for husband’s relatives (5) AUNTS – Change the H for Husband in HAUNTS (looks for) for an A for Adult

15a American lawyer’s firm about appointments (5)
DATES – DA (District Attorney, American lawyer) followed by a reversal (about) of SET (firm)

17a Female taking part in white wedding (3)
EWE – Lurking in part of whitE WEdding

33d Architect seeing old lady on boat (4)
WREN – Sir Christopher the architect or a member of the Women’s Royal Navy Service – ‘old’ because it no longer exists having been integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993

Thanks CS – how I wish I went to a better school and studied English. I was offered a place at St John’s school in Leatherhead, but my parents objected because they thought a working class boy would feel out of place with the posh lot. I wouldn’t have cared a hoot.

Heartiest congratulations to Roland Rance. Thanks to crypticsue for her review and, of course, once again thanks to Prolixic for the extraordinary presentation. Incidentally, in this splendid entertainment, my answer was ‘Order of Adjectives’, just short of the majestic description.